Edith Edmunds, who is 99 years old, the art of quilt making is inextricably linked to the Black struggle for freedom. That's ...

A Chester County-based organization promoting racial healing through storytelling is working with Longwood Gardens, Lincoln ...

The Underground Railroad, a vast network of people who helped ... For the slave, running away to the North was anything but easy. The first step was to escape from the slaveholder.

About a month ago, a New York writer revealed that what he believes to be the first reference to the “underground railroad” appeared in an abolitionist newspaper published in Albany ...

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with journalist Scott Shane, who traced the naming of the Underground Railroad back to the ... you realize that this, first of all, was not at all institutionalized ...

The city’s first African Americans and working-class immigrants are buried there. Underground Railroad Operator William ...

A traveling exhibition exploring the Underground Railroad will highlight this ... know about this traveling exhibition and other First Friday events. When: Open to public, 6-8 p.m. Friday, June ...

He envisions a business plan that melds the history of the land with momentous life events ... was the first enslaved person to travel through Wisconsin using the Underground Railroad and spent ...

30, the New Brighton Historical Society (NBHS) welcomes history lovers to the Free Underground Railroad Walking Tour. The event begins at ... Tours are first-come, first-served with the last ...

The Underground Railroad, the secret network that helped ... you realize that this, first of all, was not at all institutionalized, not at all organized. This was a small number of activists ...

As I read through these extraordinary letters, a rare real-time account of escapes and a lost masterpiece of satire, I came across the first use of “underground railroad” from the Aug. 10 ...